The fact is wokeism is a disparaging term that conservatives have appropriated and polluted to avoid talking about real history that makes whites look bad.
Since the political term wokeism oozed out of the dark corners of the internet propaganda machine Republicans have tried to change the original meaning into an attack adjective.
The dictionary defines wokeism as promotion of liberal progressive ideology and policy as an expression of sensitivity to systemic injustices and prejudices.
Those Republicans who can read the dictionary carefully avoid looking up the term because it exposes what hypocrites they are.
It's much easier to live in a fever dream where wokeism is misused in right-wing circles and bubbles. Where equality only applies to whites. Where social injustices are ignored to further Trumpism/aka fascism.
Some Background.
In some varieties of African American English, woke is used in place of woken, the usual past participle form of wake. The term first came up when used by folk-singer-songwriter Lead Belly in 1938 in his song "Scottsboro Boys." It was a story about nine black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women.
Examples.
The newly elected GOP governor of Arkansas Sarah Huckabee spent her first day on the job signing executive orders attacking wokeism (spelled out in the documents) and the popular use of Latinx to describe Hispanic women in the LGTBQ community.
In Florida Governor DeSantis has made a name for himself by corrupting the state education system with anti-woke bullshit. The history students in Florida are now only getting selected parts of American history that favor whites.
As it stands, it's no wonder why so many Americans consider Republicans domestic terrorists seeking to destroy our democracy. They've earned the sobriquet by their actions.
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